The Ghosts of Prosecutions Past: Cooperating Defendants and the Ravages of Time

November 30, 2011 | The Insider: White Collar Defense and Securities Enforcement

As practitioners who have represented cooperating witnesses in complex, white-collar criminal cases can attest, the lifespan of such cases typically is measured in years. With occasional exceptions, cooperating witnesses often plead guilty at the outset of a case, but their sentencing is put off until after the trials [...]